a Girlfriend Simulator by Rockstar SanDiego, F-Zero clone for DS, TinTin Prototype (Patreon)

Keeping up with our weird queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, we added 3 new cancelled games in the Unseen64 archive:

XGirl [Xbox]a cancelled “girlfriend simulation” game that was in development by Angel Studios (the modern Rockstar San Diego) around 2000, planned to be published by Microsoft as a launch game for their original Xbox. You can imagine it somehow like Seaman or Hey You, Pikachu! but with a “girlfriend” as the main character to interact with. As far as we know XGirl did not use voice-commands and it was more like a traditional pet / life simulation, such as the Creatures or Tamagotchi series: https://www.unseen64.net/2019/06/07/xgirl-xbox-cancelled/

Gravity Zero Racing [Nintendo DS]: also known as Zero-G, is a cancelled futuristic racing game that was to be published by Midas Interactive: it was basically an F-Zero clone for Nintendo DS. The game was planned to be released sometime in 2008 (there’s even a product page on Amazon UK), but in the end it just vanished without any official statement: https://www.unseen64.net/2019/06/06/gravity-zero-racing-ds-cancelled/

TinTin [PS2]: Appeal is rather obscure studio formed in 1995 by Yves Grolet, Franck Sauer and Yann Robert, mostly known for their cult-following adventure game Outcast (1999) and its remake (2017). During their lifespan Appeal pitched and prototyped many different games that never seen the light of day: one of these was a “The Adventures of Tintin” tie-in for Playstation 2, based on the popular Belgian comic: https://www.unseen64.net/2019/06/06/tintin-ps2-prototype/